The Oscar Nominations are out. Here are the nominations for screenplays.

Adapted screenplay

Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (District 9)
Nick Hornby (An Education)
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (In the Loop)
Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious)
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up In the Air)

Original screenplay

Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy (Up)

A few of the nominated scripts are available on the Oscar Page.

If you have a moment, check out ScriptShadow’s script review of Kick-Ass about a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero.

Like a lot of people, I was quite taken with the trailer for the movie. Shows promise.

Thanks Mark for the heads up on this from 20th Century Fox
Avatar - undated, unspecified draft script by James Cameron – hosted by: 20th Century Fox – in pdf format

In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Thanks to Clive Dawson for the donation of his script The Bunker (pdf format).

Seven German soldiers are enclosed in one bunker during the Second World War. They soon feel surrounded by enemies. When they hear about the tunnel-system beneath the bunker and some mystic events that had occurred in this place, they soon begin to go mad…

You can also read some articles about the development of the film, The Bunker on Clive Dawson’s Web Site.

You can check it out on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

Up In The Air - August 19, 2008 unspecified draft script By Jason Reitman (from the novel by Walter Kirn) – hosted by: Clooney’s Cookie Crumbs – in pdf format

Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Congrats to Michel whose short script Holy Cat! (8 pages in pdf format) has been filmed.

Holy Cat! or How to get rid of your wife’s cat.

Shout outs and such on the script and film can be made on the Discussion Board.

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominations are out.

Read some of the best screenplay nominations. – Don

Pia’s short, horror, thriller, Daddy is Home (pdf format), has been made into a machinima. This previously was audio performed which you can listen to here.

A man wakes up in a stranger’s bedroom after a wild night only to find out the stranger is his wife.

The 2009 Black List is out. Thanks Pia for the heads up and “Niles” for firing the first salvo on The Black List on the Discussion Board

For those of you who don’t know, The Black List is an annual list of Hollywood’s most liked unproduced screenplays. It started in 2004 when Franklin Leonard, a development executive for Appian Way, asked folks in the business to send in their list of top 10 unproduced screenplays. Those lists were complied into The Black List (which now as a site entirely devoted to The Black List).

Previous Black List scripts include “The Queen” , “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Juno”.

This year’s list is topped by THE MUPPET MAN by Christopher Weekes The life story and tragic early death of Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.” and THE SOCIAL NETWORK by Aaron Sorkin The story of the founders of the social networking

Read, Elizabeth Currid’s excellent opinion piece, The Black List: what it can, and cannot, do for Hollywood filmmaking

It can’t be emphasized enough, however, that The Black List is a compilation of most liked, not best. This is clearly evident based on Mystery Man on Film’s August, 2009 review of one of The Black List scripts, Balls Out (in pdf format hosted by The Robotard 8000). The script was written by Tim Talbott and Malcolm Spellman under the psudonym The Robotard 8000. When insurance salesman Jim Simmers has a near death experience, he decides that nothing matters except getting a promotion, a new car, and the hot girl from work. Jim’s new attitude alienates his friends and co-workers, and he must figure out how to live his new life without losing his old one.

MMoF begins his review, “I found this script to be a vile, degenerate, 107-page piece of shit, about as witty as a maggot-infested corpse but only half as intelligent… Read the rest of the review, it only gets better. – Don